Eric October's insane tiki art. Update 04.14.13 Page 6. Ceramics, black paper drawings & nuttiness! - Tiki Gallery

T tobunga Tiki Socialite Joined: Apr 12, 2008 Posts: 1235	T tobunga Posted posted on Thu, Apr 18, 2013 10:12 PM Aloha everybody! Thanks for the kind words... the post only looks impressive because it's months and months of stuff I've been too busy creating to find the time to get up here on TC... Mad Dog Mike - I was very pleased with the Islander mug... it's usually a crap shoot for me with ceramics, and it's nice when something works out OK! Bummed we missed Mojave, hopefully we'll be at the next event! Grog - there are a few pieces that were commissions or gifts, so they never made an appearance at any tiki events, and are being seen by a wider audience for the first time. Funny you want to get back to hand-built ceramics... I'm dying to get some molded stuff done! Thanks for the kind words, inspiration, and invaluable advise!!! Philot... Thanks! The black paper drawings are similar in principle to velvet paintings, but the technique is much quicker... I dunnno if I'd have the patience to slowly build up the layers that velvet paintings require! Maybe GREAT! GOOGLY! MOOGLY! can be my catchphrase! Hale Tiki - I'm having fun coming up with ideas for bowls... I have several in mind that still require figuring out the logistics of bring them to life... I seem to have a knack of coming up with ideas that are ridiculously difficult to execute. Big Kahuna - Glad you like! I feel I'm less an art machine and more of a slave to my crazy brain that won't let me stop making things... help! Tabu - Thanks! I know it's kind of an avalanche of a post, so I'm glad to hear that individual pieces stand out and it's not a mind-numbing blur! Big Bro - a complement from you is praise on the highest order! I'm humbled! Wendy - Thanks for getting ebTiki's mug off to him! I'm working on your cassowary bowl now... sculpted the legs and body, still have to do the neck and head, attach, and detail... see you at Caliente with cassowary in tow! Brad - You are one of my tiki heroes... thanks for the inspiration! I like that concept... "Poly-Pulp-Surrealism"... you definitely have that style down! Or Got Rum? - Thanks! I guess I just go with what ever medium works best for an idea! Is your work posted anywhere we can see? Mahalos again everybody! Yer Pal, Eric October

Aloha everybody!

Thanks for the kind words... the post only looks impressive because it's months and months of stuff I've been too busy creating to find the time to get up here on TC...

Mad Dog Mike - I was very pleased with the Islander mug... it's usually a crap shoot for me with ceramics, and it's nice when something works out OK!
Bummed we missed Mojave, hopefully we'll be at the next event!

Grog - there are a few pieces that were commissions or gifts, so they never made an appearance at any tiki events, and are being seen by a wider audience for the first time. Funny you want to get back to hand-built ceramics... I'm dying to get some molded stuff done! Thanks for the kind words, inspiration, and invaluable advise!!!

Philot... Thanks! The black paper drawings are similar in principle to velvet paintings, but the technique is much quicker... I dunnno if I'd have the patience to slowly build up the layers that velvet paintings require! Maybe GREAT! GOOGLY! MOOGLY! can be my catchphrase!

Hale Tiki - I'm having fun coming up with ideas for bowls... I have several in mind that still require figuring out the logistics of bring them to life... I seem to have a knack of coming up with ideas that are ridiculously difficult to execute.

Big Kahuna - Glad you like! I feel I'm less an art machine and more of a slave to my crazy brain that won't let me stop making things... help!

Tabu - Thanks! I know it's kind of an avalanche of a post, so I'm glad to hear that individual pieces stand out and it's not a mind-numbing blur!

Big Bro - a complement from you is praise on the highest order! I'm humbled!

Wendy - Thanks for getting ebTiki's mug off to him! I'm working on your cassowary bowl now... sculpted the legs and body, still have to do the neck and head, attach, and detail... see you at Caliente with cassowary in tow!

Brad - You are one of my tiki heroes... thanks for the inspiration! I like that concept... "Poly-Pulp-Surrealism"... you definitely have that style down!

Or Got Rum? - Thanks! I guess I just go with what ever medium works best for an idea! Is your work posted anywhere we can see?

Mahalos again everybody!
Yer Pal,
Eric October

Post #674826 by tobunga on Thu, Apr 18, 2013 10:12 PM